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Monday, May 14th, 2007+ The poor get poorer. Bob reflects on this blog post from the Wall Street Journal (“Businesses Lure Working Poor Deeper Into Debt”) and this article from Business Week (“The Poverty Business: Inside U.S. companies’ audacious drive to extract more profits from the nation’s working poor.”) + Latinos give PBS a history lesson. Ruben Navarette [...]
Foot-in-Mouth disease
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007+ Less than a month after leading the anti-Imus crusade, Rev. Al betrays his inner, uh, bigot. Does this mean he should be fired? But who would fire him? + Curt (Shrilling) Schilling on Bonds; on Rocket; on bloody socks. Even his manager is appealing to him to put a bloody sock in it. + [...]
Motley Monday
Monday, May 7th, 2007+ Faith Confronted, and Defended, Downtown. NY Times profiles Off-Off Broadway portrayals of faith, including a production by Generation Xcel volunteer Lear DeBessonet. HT: DJ + Embrace the Mess. Reuters reports: Raging hormones may explain teen moodiness. Hmm… Sounds familiar. + On evangelicals’ misuse of stats. (Although CT published this in January/February, it’s particularly timely [...]
Tuesday’s Tidbits
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007+ Liz Rios celebrates Rev. Ray Rivera’s legacy. + Faith matters on college campuses. The New York Times reports how expressions of faith on campuses appears to be rising. + Peter Ong on redeeming the “collective shame” felt by many Asian Americans following the Virginia Tech tragedy. + God and War. Newsweek’s got it covered. [...]
Sunday Stew
Sunday, April 22nd, 2007+ Columbine grad relives horror at Virginia Tech. + Why it’s never good to taunt crocodiles. + 2008 political debates online. + Alec Baldwin demonstrates how not to talk to your kids. + Va Tech killer’s brain found to be normal? With a gunshot blast to the temple, how could Cho’s brain exam be complete? [...]
A Culture of Compassion
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007+ Thirty-two innocent victims. + Dozens wounded. + One crazed gunman. + Nearly eight years to the day after Columbine, another student at a different school commits the most heinous mass murder in US history. _____________________ On September 11, 2001, my father found himself at the scene of the worst terrorist attack in our nation’s [...]
Sunday Stew
Sunday, April 15th, 2007+ Context matters. One of the world’s greatest musicians plays music by one of the worlds greatest composers on a centuries old instrument regarded as one of the world’s greatest musical treasures, and no one notices. The Washington Post writer debriefs the experiment here. + Empire State Building death plunge. Diana and I were just [...]
Who’s most responsible for true beauty?
Wednesday, April 11th, 2007In January, I posted this tragic video for the first time. In light of Don Imus’ racist rant against the Rutgers women’s basketball team last week and the resulting controversy, I wonder who’s more responsible for the current climate that could cause black girls to express themselves as they do in that video? Are fools [...]
Everyone’s a critic
Friday, March 30th, 2007Because handling crisis should be seamless? Why does politics always brings out the worst in people? Story “Highlights”: • “America’s mayor” shouldn’t run on his 9/11 record, says victim’s mom • Giuliani criticized for locating city emergency center at World Trade Center • Also allegedly failed to provide 9/11 responders with adequate radios • Critics [...]
Immigration Folly
Thursday, March 22nd, 2007In the annals of US immigration folly, this story has to take the cake for biggest waste of misguided bureaucracy. This cartoon has nothing to do with the story, other than to illustrate more immigration hypocrisy.
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